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Table 5 The radiographic and computed tomographic lung information such as the number of cats, lesion distribution, lesion pattern, the number of nodules, location, and size in twenty mammary gland adenocarcinoma affected cats

From: The evaluation of non-anesthetic computed tomography for detection of pulmonary parenchyma in feline mammary gland carcinoma: a preliminary study

Lung metastasis

 

Radiograph

Computed tomography

Number of cats

 

7/20

(35.0 %)

10/20

(50.0 %)

Distribution of nodules

   
 

Focal lesion

4/7

(57.1 %)

3/10

(30.0 %)

 

Diffuse lesion

3/7

(42.9 %)

7/10

(70.0 %)

Lesional pattern

   
 

Ill-defined nodules

7/20

(35.0 %)

10/20

(50.0 %)

 

Lung consolidation without a nodule

1/20

(5.0 %)

0/20

(0 %)

Number of nodules

 

16

65

Location of nodules

   
 

Right cranial compartment

2/16

(12.5 %)

11/65

(16.9 %)

 

Right middle compartment

5/16

(31.2 %)

8/65

(12.3 %)

 

Right caudal compartment

3/16

(18.7 %)

20/65

(30.7 %)

 

Left cranial

compartment

0/16

(0 %)

7/65

(10.7 %)

 

Left middle

compartment

0/16

(0 %)

6/65

(9.2 %)

 

Left caudal

compartment

6/16

(37.5 %)

13/65

(20.0 %)

Size of nodules (mm)

 

5.8 ± 2.2

(2.5–10.2)

3.8 ± 1.9

(1.0-8.4)